Roofing-strip.



PATENTED JAN. '7, 1908. P. 0. OVERBURY.

ROOFING STRIPJ APPLICATION FILED MAR.18.1007.

INVEIN'TEIR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK (LOVERBURY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO FLINTKOTE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ROOFING-STRIR Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 7, 1908.

Application filed March 18. 1907. Serial No. 362,987.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, FREDERICK' O. OVER- BURY, of New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roofing-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to elongated strips of flexible waterproof material of indeterminate length, suitable for use in covering roofs and walls of buildings by la gthe stri sin courses, one edge of each st p par.- tial y overlap ing the strip below it. For convenience, l have'- denominated the arti cles, to which my invention relates, as a roofing strip without intending to limit the application for these strips to roofs alone.

The invention has for its object to provide a roofing strip, capable of being laid with either side outermost, and adapted to produce a roof or wall surface either of a single color throughout, which color may be either of two contrasting colors, or capable of being laid so that the color of the exposed surface' of eachstrip will contrast with' the color of the adjoining strip or strips.

The invention consists of a roofing strip of the character above indicated, having its opposite sides differently colored.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,-Figure 1 represents a side view of a ortion'or fragment of a roofing strip, shade to represent a given color, such as red. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the opposite side of the ortion or fragment illustrated in Fig. 1, shadbd to represent a different or contrasting color, such as black. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference indicate thesame parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention, I )rovide an elongated flexible water-proof roo ng strip a, made of any suitable material or materials and produced by any suitable process, the strip being of suitable flexibility and being water-proof and adapted to resist the action present a different color, such as black. The colors'red and black are of course named for the purposes of illustration. I desire to be understood as reserving the right to em loy any two contrasting colors, one for the si e a and the other for the side a. The colored surfaces (1 and a ma be produced by any suitable process, care fieing taken to provide such coloring material and employ such processes as will make the respective colors durable and permanent, and capable, of withstanding elemental action.

In the embodiment of the 'nvention here shown, the edge a? of the strip 1s straight and the edge-a is serrated, the serrated edge a, being the lower edge of the strip when the latter is laid The strips are laid in such manner that the serrated edges will present a diversified appearance on a roof or wall similar to that produced by ointed shingles, theserrations of each strip a ternating with those of the strip below it, as shown in my a pheation for Letters Patent of the Untied states, Serial No. 318,903, filed May 26, 1906. My invention is not limited, however, to a strip having a serrated edge, as the lower edge of the strip may be straight, if desired, and parered, and also enables the user to produce a variegated surface by alternating the strips so that one strip will present the surface a outermost, while the next strip will present the surface a outermost.

When the serrated strips are laid so that the color or tint of the exposed side of one strip is differentiated from the color or tint of the exposed side of the next strip, the effect to the eye is to make the serrated edge of each strip of greater thickness than it actually 08- sesses. In other words, the exposed su ace of onestrip appears to stand out more prominently from the exposed surface of the next strip below it than would be the case if the strips were not differentiated in color or tint.

I claim:

As an article of manufacture, an elongated In testimony whereof I have aflixed my roofing strip serrated at one of its edges and signature, in presence of two witnesses.

having'one of its sides differentiated in color or tint from the other side, both sides being FREDERICK OVERBURY' 5 capable of withstanding elemental action, Witnesses:

whereby the strip is adapted to be laid with JOSEPH N .-MILEHAM,

either side outward. HELENA ML. MAOKIE. 

